Given a second chance at life on her eighteenth engagement celebration, the heroine smiles as her greedy sister scrambles to claim a flashy serpent shifter posing as high-society royalty. Knowing from her prior life that the serpent is a violent monster, she willingly accepts Orion, a penniless merman whom everyone mocks as a ragged commoner.
At the societal reception, she exposes the serpent's counterfeit status, shielding her family while Orion's true identity as the supreme Kensington aquatic heir comes to light. When aristocratic relatives attempt to buy her silence and send her into exile, she boards an ocean liner, only to see Orion’s shimmering scales pursuing her across the waves.
